The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-20 00:00:00

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Dr. CHALMERS' lectures, now announced, are to be " upon the Establishment and Extension of Na tional Churches, as affording this only adequate ma chinery for the moral and Christian instruction of the people. - We hope that the learned Doctor, in dis coursing on this important theme, will not forget to shew how it happens that Christianity can now be propagated in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, arid in other wholly barbarous and half civilized lands, with out any National Church ; while Scotland, according to the learned Doctor's own statement, with its well organized National Church, is deep sunk in hea thenism. We hope that he will demonstrate, too, how it happened that Christianity was propagated long after the age of miracles amongst the barbarous nations of Europe, not merely without the aid of a National Church, hut in opposition to the civil autho rity ; and how it happens, if Christianity can only be preserved by National Churches, that the peculiarly petted and favourite form of Christianity amongst us— the National Church—with all the power of the State to help it, has been almost wholly extinguished in Ire land ; and up to a recent period, when much public censure, and the emulation of other sects quickened the zeal of its priests, was fast giving place to unpaid and even persecuted Dissent in England. Lest the learned Doctor should forget or omit this important part of his theme, we shall throw out a few remarks which may help our readers to come to a right con clusion. Its the case of the Missionaries, who are now, ac cording to their reports, successfully propagating Christianity in the Pacific Islands, it is obvious that they have altogether more knowledge of almost every descriptio n than the islanders, and they both teach them with authority, and in teaching them prove their superiority by their skill in several arts. They do not tax the people to support their Churches ; but they teach the islanders how to sow anti how to reap ; how to make cloth, paper, and gunpowder, as well as teach them Christianity. To them the Christian religion, so far from being made hateful by a compulsory tax, is recommended to them by the numerous advantages freely offered, by which it is accompanied. All modern conversions to Christianity, not excepting the conver sion of the Indians in Paraguay, were accomplished by men more advanced in civilization than those they converted. Nor was the case very different in the early ages of Christianity. If the Jewish fishermen and carpenters belonged to no superior class of civilized men, it must he admitted that even they were more advanced than the barbarous tribes among whom Christianity wan soon spread. They, however, were aided by the influence of miracles ; and, after the age of miracles was over—after the conversion of the Romans had taken place to a considerable extent—after the various barbarous nations of the North and the East had dismembered the empire—the most learned of the Romans found safety in becoming Christian ministers. The monasteries, and other asylums of the priests, were the repositories of all knowledge, because, as M. GUIZOT has demonstrated in his works on civi lization, the conquered patricians of Italy and Gaul took refuge in the priesthood. The Christian minis ters of that time possessed all that had been saved of the ancient treasures of knowledge, collected in Egypt, Greece, and Rome : they belonged, like the missionaries of our day, to a much more civilized race of men than those they converted to Christianity. The majority of the ministers of the Catholic Church in the early ages stood in the same relation to the Saxons, Goths, Lombards, and others, as the English Missionaries now stand to the Pacific Islanders. They taught their savage conquerors all that had been preserved of ancient arts : they impressed on them by their example the advantages of civilization, and raised their savage nature by an improved code of morality ; they won their approbation and support, and, in re turn for benefits conferred, they gained large revenues from their admiring pupils. The Church, however, had grown nearly to the height of her power, and felt symptoms of decay, before she forcibly extorted con tributions, or imposed compulsory taxes on her willing followers. On the one hand, when Christianity was successfully propagated, there were great power and great zeal to confer real benefits on the converts, and a tempting of them into the bosom of Christianity ; on the other, there was great ignorance, which readily gave its mind to imbibe the religious knowledge poured into it by those who possessed all kinds of knowledge, and made it the hand-maid to much useful service. There was no compulsion to adopt Christianity, and no civil authority compelled men to support it. We read, indeed, of some cases of forcible conver sion, in which the prince or leader was first a willing convert, and afterwards compelled his subjects to em brace Christianity. The resistance, however, which the Saxons and other inhabitants of lower Germany made to CHARLEMAGNE, and the slow progress of Christianity amongst them —many of whom two cen turies ago still clung to Paganism—are types, we admit, of our National Churches, and their injurious effects. The bloody persecution of CHARLEMAGNE to con vert the Saxons was the commencement in Europe of National Churches. Christianity then became allied to the civil power, and its beneficent principles were cor rupted by the passions of savages. Unholy was the oriain of the union between Church and State, and Na Tonal Churches are the lingering remnant of the Maho medan principle, as acted on by CHARLEMAGNE, of converting men to Christianity by the sword. The prin. 11141% 4 16301 1h4tonstraint in them is the same ;but our im , ity, which will not tolerate putting a nfa.4 to .r considerable offences, only allows the • it' to fine, vex, and plunder those who s%I a a % 7, 4 Pc.' • • *%l ly 1' - alxu. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1838 differ from the national-religion-doctors. In their system, as in that of CHARLEMAGNE, everything is different from the system of conversion adopted by the Missionaries to the Pacific Islands. Christianity, instead of being recommended by benefits, comes ac companied by injuries. In the name of the National Church men are denied liberty, and their pockets are picked. They suffer injustice from men, and their indignation extends to religion. The marvels and mys teries of which, they are told, only excite suspicion and mistrust when on them a priesthood founds a claim to political power, and to extort their substance. It is, then, the legal injustice comprised in the very essence of a National Church which has made that form of Christianity amongst us, which receives the exclusive support of the law hated in Ireland, and much despised and scorned in England. In submitting to laws men acknowledge them to be evils ; but religion is altogether a benefit ; and, by associating it with laws—by enforcing it like a conscription, or like obe dience to a tyrant—the hateful characteristics of law are imparted to religion, and it is made, as Dr. CHAL MERS now complains, inefficacious in Scotland, Eng land, and Ireland. A National Church then is in all its characteristics the very reverse of that peaceful mission which made Christianity successful in the early ages, and now makes it successful in the Pacific Islands. The laws, we apprehend, of human nature are the same in distant ages and countries ; and the same principles which prevailed in former times, and now prevail at Owyhee, also prevail amongst us. 'We all hate, and justly hate, those who claim to be our oppressors, and we love those who confer benefits on us. To make reli gion acceptable, she must be associated with advantage. A National Church inflicts wrong in the name of reli gion on all those who do not belong to its priesthood. This is the explanation of the decay of the National Church throughout the empire ; and we hope that the learned Doctor, who is to lecture on the subject, will prove, in opposition to the examples we have quoted, that Christianity can be promoted by taxation. Since this article was in type (it had been prepared yesterday) we have seen in the Times, of this morning, an article on Dr. CHA Ls! Erts' lectures, which we transfer to our columns. 'We shall both report the lectures when they commence, and comment on them, being convinced that the question of establishing and endowing National Churches has now become a vital question to the liberty, the peace, and prosperity of the country. The honest enthusiasm with which the liberal and enlightened inhabitants of Birmingham have taken up the cause of the cruelly oppressed coloured population of our West Indian Colonies, augurs well foi the speedy triumph of the unconditional Emancipation ists. The report of the proceedings of the Anti- Slavery Meeting, held there yesterday—which will be found at length in our columns of this day—will find its way to the tread-mills of Jamaica, and re-animate with a hope of speedy deliverance, many a now dis consolate heart. We are confident that the men of Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool—the men of ' sound heads, strong hands, and stout hearts—will not excite hopes only to disappoint them—will not raise the cup of consolation to the parched lips of the poor African, only to manifest the excessive cruelty of des potism, in dashing it untasted to the ground. It is not words only, but the sturdy energy of action, that we want from them ; and we have good reason to be satisfied that we shall not be disappointed. The cause in which they are engaged is one of the noblest and holiest that ever occupied the mind of man. They have justice—Heaven—the uplif ted voice of every great and good man—cheering them on. They need not invoke the sanctity of the end as a justification of the means, for both are alike righteous. Need we say that they shall have all the support that we can give them? Such a declaration on our part must he now unnecessary. We are for the unconditional abolition of Slavery in every part of the world; and we cannot tax ourselves with ever having lost an opportuity to take part with the oppressed agaiffst the oppressor. We will not here enter into an analysis of the speeches delivered at the Birmingham Meeting, satis fied that there are few of our readers who will not peruse the Report; but to those who wish to see the question placed on a proper business footing, we strongly recommend an immediate reference to the admirable speech of Mr. STURGE. The statements made by this gentleman—based as they are upon do cuments of unquestioned authenticity—place the dark deeds of the Planters, and their zealous supporters in this country, in a stronger light than any in which they have yet been exhibited. Those three expert mountebanks, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR, and Lord MAIDSTONE, are carrying all before them in the North, to the annoyance of the Easter-holiday show men, who complain of a most serious falling-off in their business. Though there were an Irish giant, a learned pig, a salamander, and a calf with a big tail growing out of the nape of its neck, in the course of exhibition at Manchester on Wednesday last, yet no sooner was it known that the BURDETT caravan had arrived, than all the townsmen flocked off to the Corn Ex change where it put up, leaving all the other caravans in a state of utter, hopeless solitude. Now we must confess—enemies as we are to all monopolies—that we deeply sympathise with the legitimate showme n on this occasion ; and are of opinion that the two Baro nets and the Peer hare interfered in a most unwarrant able manner with the profits of their brethren in the profession. That they exhibit themselves gratis is no answer to our charge ; they have no earthly right— if the principles of humanity are to go for anything— to set up an Opposition caravan, which they must be well aware will take the bread out of the mouth of the industrious, and far more deserving, proprietor of the Irish giant and the salamander. If, however, we leav out of consideration the manifest iniquity of the cas it is our duty to confess that the exhibition made 0 d i themselves by the two Baronets and the Peer is worthy of all the popularity it has met with What can be richer than the spectacle of Sii ' FRANCIS BURDETT preaching an after-dinner sermon in praise of the high Tory Church ; of Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR assuring the Manchester operatives that they are as well off as the aristocratic classes, because " they have the same prospects of eternity ;" and of Lord MAIDSTONE enunciating with an emphasis proportioned to the grand occasion, that "at Leeds on Monday, and at Salford Tues day, he had disposed of O'CONNELL 1" This last trait of character is irresistible. No wonder it was received with shouts of enthusiasm by an electri fied audience ! It is impossible indeed to over-estimate the services that Lord MAIDSTONE has conferred on all good Tories by thus disposing of O'CONNELL. Henceforth this affrighted faction may sleep in peace. David has slain Goliah ; the wrongs of years are avenged ; and Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday— the days when this memorable exploit was achieved— shall from this time forward " stand aye remembered" in the Tory calendar. C! onservatism and starvation go hand in hand. Lord CHANDOS and his Buckinghamshire friends, those men who bought land at a high price, and have compelled the legislature to make good their improvi dent speculations, had a meeting at Aylesbury yester day, and after they had resolved to petition the Par liament against Colonel SEALE'S Bill, lest a grain of flour, not produced by their land, should get into the people's mouths, they went off to a grand Conserva tive festival at Wendover. That connection gives in one sentence the true character of Conservatism. Under the hypocritical mask of saving and serving the people, it seeks to make and keep them slaves, as wild beasts are tamed by exposing them to hunger. We could not desire a better exemplification of the true principle of Conservatism. Colonel SEALE'S Bill will give employment to our millers, and the sapient agriculturists of Cambridge tell us that the corn should only be ground where it is consumed. The same doctrine applied to the manufactures of cotton and wooll e n s wou ld soon d e p r i ve the agricul turists of h a lf th e i r cus t omers , an d ma k e their cor n a drug. Th ose l an d owners w h o legallyplunder th e bread-eaters of many millions a year, apprehend that fraud will be committed under Colonel SEALE'S Bill. They will allow nobody to cheathut themselves, and they having the preponderance in the Legislature, do it ac cording to law. For our parts we are free to admit that the smuggling, or fraud, as the agriculturists call it, which would give bread to the people, by evading the Corn Laws, is far preferable to the legal fraud which snatches it from their hungry mouths. " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn at no other," is a proverb which JOHN Btn.r. knows to his cost contains a sad truth. After lending to all the nations of the earth that would borrow of him, without receiving back principal or interest from one half of them, this deal education has at last in spired him with a little wisdom, and driven his cre ditors to sad shifts to get more money out of his pocket. Knowing that their paper bonds would be rejected, the Spaniards offer mines, and the Dutch men islands, but to all appearance without effect. The former, after a great display of words about public faith and honesty, and their sincere desire to pay their debts, thought they had at last hit upon an admirable contrivance to deceive him a tenth time. They now find, however, that they had reckoned without their host. Their agent at Paris being aware of the feel ings in this country respecting Spanish honour and credit, has given up the task in despair, and we confi dently trust that the Dutchman, with all his maneeuvr in, to keep up the funds, and all his promises of rich ret u r ns from the Spice Islands in the East, will find himself in the same predicament. The condition of the two countries, as regards their ability to pay, is alike hopeless. Their debts are enormous—their re sources small, and their honour is all that we have to rely on. Nothing is more easy than to find an excuse for breaking an inconvenient engagement. Both na tions have already broken solemn engagements—the one compounded with its creditors, and the other is actually bankrupt—and yet they come again to England and ask for renewed credit. Sir WALTER SCOTT thought a destitute widow, with two or three children to provide for, the most impudent of all beggars ; but such a personage as he has described is the picture of modesty when compared with these two applicants. Holland has a debt equal to a sixth part of the enor .nous debt of this country, with about a twelfth of the population, and not a fiftieth part of the trade and commerce. Spain has neither trade nor mannfactures, nor commerce nor credit ; and in this hopeful condition they present themselves to JOHN BULL for the loan of a few millions l No. If we risk our money let us risk it on internal improvements, and not trust it to a Sovereign who would use it to prolong hostility be tween the Dutch and Belgians ; or to a company at Madrid, who have another object much more at heart than a speedy termination of the war. We understand that the Post-office authorities charged the second number of the Court Gazette with postage, on the ground that it had not been submitted to the Postmaster-General for his opinion whether or not it came under the description of a newspaper. The proprietor of the Gazette means to bring the mat ter to issue, and has accordingly commenced, we are told, proceedings against the Postmaster-General for illegally stopping the circulation of the paper. The clause of the Act of ISt VICTORIA, cap. 34, sec. 32, on which the Post-office authorities act, is as follows : " And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which a question shall arise, whether a printed paper is entitled tl the privileges of a newspaper or other publication hereby privileged, io far as respects the transmission thereof by the post, under the Post-Office Act, the question shall be referred to the determination of the Postmaster-General, whose decision, with the concurrence of the Lords of the Treasury, shall be final." But we apprehend that when a new periodical pub cation is entered at the Stamp-office as a newspaper, and when the proprietors and publishers hare other wise fulfilled all the conditions required by the law, that no question ought to arise, and the Post-offi ce authorities have no right to interfere. It is very kind of them to recommend those who publish any , uch paper for the first time to send a copy of it to the Postmaster-General for his opinion ; but there is no obligation on publishers to do so, and their paper, if it be a newspaper according to law, should not be stopped by the Post-office, because this kind recommendation has not been complied with. We demur much to making any individual, whether nominally responsible or not, for real responsibility scarcely exists in any privileged peer, such as in the Postmaster-General—and on principle we object to publications which are obviously newspapers being submitted to him for his opinion or approval. He might gradually usurp on that a power of deciding such a question by the principles of the publication, and might stop the circulation of newspapers hostile to his party or his class. The question, however, will now be de cided, and we hope so as to convince the Post-offic e authorities that they must neither stretch nor pervert the law. We copy from the Dutch Papers received this day, the annexed address of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the States-General on the 13th ult., on the bighly importa n t su bj ect o f t h e relat i ons at present subsisting between Holland and Belgium. The late hour at which this document reached us prevents us from offering so much as a line of Comment upon it : AMSTERDAM, APRIL 14.—We are enabled to publish the following communications, made to the States General on the 13th March, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs :—" Noble and Mighty Lords,—Before I enter on the chief subject of my communication—viz., the present state of the Belgian ques tion, I must acquaint you with an incident, insignificant in its origin, but which has acquired iotne importance, in conse quence of the attitude assumed by Great Britain and France. " Within the rayon of thejortress of Luxemburg, which belongs to the German Confederatio n , in the limits of which the Confederation has always asserted the principle of not tolerating either a military force, or any act of authority on the part of the Belgians, h situated in the forest known by the name of the Grunenwald, which, accord ing: was the o p disposal posd. of The tha to the negociations in the confer ences at London, are to remain under the administration of t h e Grand Duke. The Belgians having attempted, in 1831 an d 1833, to fell and sell design nom meddling w ith the forest, and left the timber r in timber an Diet in that forbidh forest, t e e a itrheaidr Belgians de from felled officers of Luxemburgh, enjoining the mili tary authority in e German Luxemburg to support this measure. In 1833 the Belgians having renewed the attempt, relying on the c onvent i on, con cluded on the 21st of May In the same year by the Nether lands with France and Great Britain, the Diet by a new de cree Frepeated its prohibition, and sent fresh orders to the Commander-in-Chief at Luxemburg to see to the execution the htyerr theit territory of it. The result was that no ti m b er was felled. This decree announced in explicit terms the object not of Lu xem b urg , not to e updeer d m Belgian troops, any occupied in act of authority not yet recognised and exerc i sed, nor to admit the very dangerous principles advanc e d b y the Belgians re- included nt the Belgium part re specting the meaning of the Convention of the 21st of May, 1833, and to secure for the fortress the means of providing itself with the necessary fuel, by the exclusive cutting of the wood situated in its rayon. To guarantee the administration of this forest, the Grand Ducal Government immediately re moved the officers of tne forest who had been unfaithful, and put others in their place, who have been constantly engaged in renewing the title deeds that had been withdrawn, or in ' inforcing them against the persons answerable to the Trea sury of the Grand Duke. In the Communes within the rayon, the forest officers though discharged by the Belgians, have continued to send in their reports, and to repress, as much as possible, trespassers in the forest. The civil and military government of the fortress, on its part, has always acted in conformity with this state of things. Thus, at the beginning of 1834, thirty persons pointed out as trespassers, and taken in the fact, were arrested by patroles sent from the fortress, and tried at Luxemburg, where in 1837, four persons were tried in the Court of Assizes for similar offences. If Belgium has desired to make some individual pass for officers of the forest, they can exercise functions in name only, because the Belgian soldiers and gendarme? are excluded from the Rayon, and consequently cannot arrest . any person there. Besides, the German Diet has not only forbid even the Belgians all access, and the military conscription in the Rayon. but has expressly prohibited them from exercising any authority over the forest. " In consequence, when the lapse of some years made it ne cessary to fell some timber for the preservation of the forest, and for the use of the fortress, a decree of the Diet of the 12th October, 1837, authorized the Governor of the fortress to protect, if necessary, the officers of the Grand Ducal domain, in the regular management and felling timber in the forest of Grunenwald, against any infraction or interruption. " No person had the most distant idea that a measure so simple, so conformable to the nature of the case, and which besides did not in any way prejudice Belgium, which was ex cluded from the use of the forest, and from all prospect of ever possessing it, would give rise to the difficulties raised against it by England and France. They have given occasion to the exchange of the following notes,* in which the two powers have endeavoured to represent the measure as an infraction of the convention of the 21st May, 1833, touching, besides, on the material point. Whereas, on our side, it was thought proper to prove, that the felling of timber in the Grunewald, had nothing to do with that convention, and that the natural question was entirely German, and did not concern the Netherlands. " On the 16th December last year the French Minister at Frankfort addressed a note on this subject to the German Diet, but as it was adjourned at that time, and has not yet resumed its sittings, no answer has yet been given to that note. Mean time the Members of the Diet present at Frankfort took a provisional resolution that the question should remain entire. I come now to that part of my address which is especially worthy of your attention. Its importance determines me to refrain from all circumlocution and all argument, to confine myself in the execution of my task exclusively to facts, and to speak only the strict language of history. The object of the confidential overtures to the Courts of Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh, announced in my last communication, was the following combination :.- The Government of the Netherlands, after having again scrupu lously examined all the possible issues, had fixed on the idea of a provisional execution of the twenty-four articles recom mended by the Conference of London, in the first year of the negociations, as containing equitable terms of separation, the provisional execution to take place without prejudice to the rights of either party, and with the reservation of a final nego ciation with the powers, in order to come to a definitive ar rangement. But, before it made a formal overture on this point to the five Courts, the Cabinet of the Hague wished first to communicate confidentially with those of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. This time, as before, the Govern ment has failed in its efforts, and has not reaped the fruit which it confidently expected, for this project, which was so well ca l cu l ated to propose a final arrangement. Russia it i s true shewed itself nobly to support the proposal at Lon don, but at St. Petersburgh as well at Vienna and Berlin, it was unfavourably thought of as likely to lead only to a new provisional state of things. Accordingly Austria and Prussia declared they were not inclined to co-operate in it. These powers desired besides that the question of territory in Lim burg, should be first decided in favour of the German Con federation. The Government seeing itself thus deprived of this resource, also once more weighed all possible chances and endeavours. Then strong in the consciousness of having in the midst of unmerited difficulties raised against the Courts by ingratitude and violence, by the infractionand the annihilation of the most sacred treaties, and by the sacrifice of the dearest in'erests of Europe, fulfilled with firmness, but likewise with discernment, the duties imposed upon it, the Government resolved on the step contained in the following note addressed to the Envoy of the Netherlands in England, to be delivered to the Conference of London. (This note we have already published.) At the same time, the Government has caused it to be declared at Berlin and Vienna, that with rsspect to the first seven Articles, the King consents to admit them in the sense of a territorial indemnity for the German Con federation at Limburg, which shall be the subject of a special negotiation of his Majesty with the Confederation, on the prin ciple that this indemnity shall not extend to the ancient pos sessions of the Republic of the United Provinces in Limburg, nor to the equivalent, which shall replace the ceded portion of those possessions, the whole without prejudice to the idea suggested at Vienna in 1834, according to which the high contracting parties would endeavour to agree on a double union with the kingdom of the Netherlands, and with the German Confederations of the territory destined to constitute the territorial indemnity in favour of the latter. " Such, Noble and :Mighty Lords, is :the statement which hard necessity has commanded me to make to the Represen tatives of the Netherlands. I have too much respect for the emotion with which this communication must have been heard, to interrupt it by reflection, and how should I venture to over leap the interval, beyond which alone great everts can be judged. Posterity will not mistake the character of those, the fatal consequences of which have so severely shaken the kingdom of the Netherlands and the equilibrium of Europe. They bear the fatal and indeliole stamp of that enervated and unprincipled policy of our age, and of the misfortunes which it has produced." _ The liandlesblad, which likewise gives the above article, copies and criticises an article of the Journal des Debats, which shows that Belgium is not bound to accept the 24 Articles. * A Letter of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, of 20th Dec. 1837. B My answer, 22d Dec. 1837. C Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, 22d Dec, 1837. D My answer, 25th Dec. 1837. E Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, of 30th Dec. 1837, F Accompanied by a further protest, and G By a letter from Lord Palmerston. H My answer 2d January, 1838. I Note of Baron Monier, 30th Dec. 1837. J My answer, 2d Jan. 1838. K Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, 16th Jan. 1838. L My answer, 24th Jan. 1838. M Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowc, Ist Feb. 1838. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 17. Actual Debt, 2% per ^ , mt Money. Bills. 54)4 514 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A limit Svadie, 4N, per cent .. 95 95% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 79% 80 Commercial Company, 4':, per cent 18 4 14 1:•5!‘ Ditto (Isl 2 and 1K33) 5 per cent. Loan 1536, I per cent. Ditto 19:37. 6 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 17 Two months BELGIAN t UNDS—BRUBSELS, APRIL 19. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. IW Loan of Thirty Millions 1 .... 933 i Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 9 8% Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent .. 169 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 113% National Society —Brussels Papers, April 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 10. Five per Cents. Slatalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1456 -4111gesneine Zeitung„7April 13. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. APRIL 12. Bills. Aloney, St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent ................1025% 102% Prussian English Loan, 18.10, 4 per cent. 103 102, E Exchange on London, three months ... 6 23% —Prussian State Gazette. April 13. We have received a letter from Lima of the Ist of December 1837, giving an account of the signing of a treaty of peace between the Peru-Boli►ian Confedera- tion and Chili. We have not space for it to-day, but as its details arc interesting, it shall appear, if possible, to-morrow•. The Paris Journals of Wednesday are filled with the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the reduc tion of the Five per Cents. Up to the hour when the mails started for London, no member of the Cabinet had addressed the Chamber. The contest was en tirely between the fifth-rate orators and politicians, whom the leaders of the Ministerial and Opposition parties rather suffered than encouraged to take the lead upon this question. The debate was in conse quence unusually animated, lack of argument being supplied by warmth of tamper and vehemence of declamation. M. DE LAMARTINE, the poet, made a florid speech against the reduction of the inte rest, which he denounced as an act of national robbery. As if to throw oil on the flames, M. LAPITTE proposed, as an amendment upon M. GOWN'S plan, that the interest should be reduced to three-and-a-half per cent. at the price of eighty three francs thirty-three cents.—a scheme highly ob jectionable, were it only for its complexity, and to four-fifths of the holders of the Rentes, utter unintelli gibility. To increase the nominal amount of Stock, which, reducing the interest, is only perplexing the s imple process of enriching oneself by taking out of one pocket to fill the other. The news from Spain is rather unimportant. Rumours were afloat that the Carlist Chief BASILIO had penetrated to Almaden, and flooded the quicksilver mines there—the last strong-hold of the Spanish Treasury. The negligenc e of the Spanish Govern ment is such, that we should not be surprised at any thing that could happen. If we feel anything like astonishment, it is that the Carlists have not long since plundered the Escurial. We must observe, however, that letters of the 10th inst. from Madrid, received to-day, make no mention of the flooding of the mines ; but, on the contrary, represent BASILIO as flying before the QUEEN'S Generals. FRENCH FUNDS. -PARIS, APRIL 18. Five per Cents.. 108 f. 55c. 50c. 60c. 75c. Four and a Half ver Cents. 103 f. 50c. Four per Cents., 101 f. 9.5 c, Three per Cents., PK 80f. Ole. 81f. Bank Actions, 2,670 f. 2,r40f. 2,670 f. acute (le Naples, 100 E 100 f. sc. 100 E Roman Five per Cents., 103. Spanish Actives, 21%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 1012 . Belgian Bank, 1,415 f. Hzytian Loan, 475 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 55c.; money, 251. 55c TMee months, paper, :25f. 40c.; money, 25f. 40c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. JOS& g!c. Three per Cents., 81f. Sc. Bank Actions, 2,670 f. Romans, 103. Belgian Loan, 1021 ii. Belgian Bank, 1,415 f. Havtian Loan, 3'75f. Spanish Actives, 21)4. RAILWAY SHARES. Paris to St. Germains, 1,00 f. I,ooof. Paris to Versailles, R. B. 800 f. 807 E 50c. 805 f. Paris to Versailles, L. B. 670 f. 6721.50 c. 667 f. 50c. Mulhausen to Thann 650 f. ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. Seyssel, A. 5,860 f. I,ooof. Ditto (English) 870 f. Biisf. 870 f. Des Maurell, B. 2,050 f. 2,06 q. Guibert, 650 f. 665 f. 640 f. 645 f. Bastenes, 2,600 f. Polonceau, 945 f. 960 f. 940 f. 945 f. Colonne, B 1,420 E 1,500 f. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, APRIL 19.—Wind N. N. E.—Sailed the whole of the outward-bound on their respective voyages. Also came down from the River and proceeded the Gem, Grozier ; Latona, Sutton ; John, Jackson • and Joseph Hume, Richmond, for Quebec ; Romulus, Head, Barbadoes ; Betsey, Harvey, Cibraltar ; Philadelphia, Morgan, New York ; Hector, Crisp, Constantinople ; Caroline, Home, Bordeaux. Arrived, and remain with the rest of the homeward-bound, the Marquis of Chandos, Keyser, from Demerara. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Wind N. by E., fine.—Sailed, the Stakesby (Transport), Goble, tor Quebec. FALMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind N.N. W. to N, strong gales and squally.—Sailed. the Goldfinch (Packet), Lieut. Collier, for Havana, Belize and Alexia ; Nightingale (Packet) for the West Indies. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 19.—Wind N. E., fresh, fine weather.— Sailedy the Rival, Whinfield, for Rio Janeiro; the Agenoria, Harland, for Dalhousie. DOVER, APRIL 19.—Arrived off Port, the:Aurora, Boer, from Genoa; the Barbadoes, Travis, from Trieste ; the Robert and Henry, Tregarthen, from Limerick. SALCOMBE, APRIL 19.—Arrived off Port, the Concordia, Surinam, from Surinam ; the Vesta, from Santa Cruz. GUERNSEY, APRIL 17.—Arrived, the Arago, Mellarvilla, from Carmen; the Caledonia, Gifford, from Havana. LOWESTOFFE, APRIL 19.—A quantity of raffle was picked up this morning in these roads; they are supposed to belong to a small coaster, as the spars are of that description. Up wards of one hundred and fifty sail of vessels are riding in the South Roads. ST. MICHAEL'S, APRIL 3. —The Secret, Gates, which left London on the 22d of February, from this Island, has not ye arrived. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 19.—The Scotia, hence to Demerara which sank 15th inst. off Beaumaris Bay, has been broken up, cargo washing ashore. The Scipio, Campbell, from Demerara to the Clyde, was on shore near Troon, 17th instant. The Intrepid, from Mexico to London, was spoken 20th ult. in lat. 30 to long. 64 W. ; had encountered a heavy gale from N. N. W., in long. 70, which had carried away sails, &c., by the Lady K. Barham, arrived in the Downs. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET CITY ( THIS DAY), TWELVE 0' CL OCM We stated two days ago that the New York Evening Post of the 26th of March, one day later than previously received, was in town. This morning it has been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, from which we copy the following " PHILADELPHIA.-Our sister city is crowded with Western merchants. New York merchants sell a piece of calico a week. Pennsylvania has sustair,ed her sound banks ; New Yorks has crushed all her's. Philadelphia flourishes. One New York landlord offers a row of stores on a lease of ten years, free of rent for the first year." " We learn from the Journal of Commerce that the Lon don packets lately arrived have brought out the following amount of golden sovereigns : Ship Toronto 96,000 Ship Ontario Ship Westminster 146,000 Total amount 338,000 " FRENCH INDEMNITIES.—The proceeds of the 6th instal ment will be paid to claimants at the Bank of America on or after the 2d of April. We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp, of yesterday's date. The Dutch papers of the 18th April state that his Majesty has ordered a general inspection of every corps of the Dutch army, which is to commence on the 3d May and to finish on the 31st May; and the review of the troops in Zealand, and others not incorporated in the field army, is to commence on the Ist June. Amsterdam prices—Two. and-a- Halt per Cents., 54e ; Five per Cents,, 1014. THE FUNDS. We have very few arrivals - this morning, and the New York Evening Post of the 26th March does not bring any later ar rivals from Canada than previously received. The British and Foreign Markets continue without animation this morning, and Consols may be quoted at the leaving-off prices of yester day, 93i to Money, and 933- to a for the Account. Ex chequer Bills, 67 69 prem. ; India Bonds, 74 76 ; Bank Stock, 2054. In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal to the pre sent hour, and might be quoted as they left off. Spanish Active,24 +, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 32,5 ; Three per cents. 21/ 224 ; Brazilian, 763- ; Mexican, 271 4 ; Colom bian, 723 ; Dutch Two.and_ Half, 531 544. Money still continues plentiful, and commercial affairs very dull. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2OSNIA 3 ,4 India Stue. 270 (39% 3 per Cent. Sc I 9..2.?i % ')itto Bonds pm. 3 per Cent. Cons 93%%% South Sea Stuck ......... ........ . F 3,4 per Cent.......... ............. Old Annnities Ditto Red 100 % 14 New Ditto New :1)4 per Cent 101%5 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ New 5 per Cent...... ..... .., ... Each. Bills, Zl,OO , 69 67 ire Bank Long Annuitiestoext ire Ditto. .500 6,1 67 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 15 1-16 15 Ditto Snail Oct. 10, i 839 Jan. 5, 1860 15!4 3-16 j Ditto Advertised pm Jan. 5, 1880.................... — I Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ -- .. .....,. April 5, 1880.. ...... ............ -- India Stock for Account — Jan. 5, tB7O — Consols for Acconnt PRICES OF FOREIGN FUN'S THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds., lOB4 Peruvia.s Bonds lietgian Bond. ...... ........ ... 103% 4 Ditto Account — Ditto Account . Portugueseßonds Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent 21% Chilliar Bonds — Prussian Bonds — Ditto Account ......... ...... .. Russian Bonds, 1822 — Columbian Bonds. Ditto Account Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824. —. Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Dmish Bonds ..... Ditto ACCOULIt ..... ...... , -- Ditto Account 204 I,i Greek Bon , French, 5 per cent-- ..... —l'. —, Ditto Bonds, 1825 . — ----- 4 per cent : C. Ditto Accrrint Mexican Bonois, 5 per cent — Exchange f. —c. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. - Ditto Account 54 Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent 90% 1 0 Neapolitan — Ditto Account ,,, 100 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company Hull and Selby Railway Company l5 12 Brighton Railway Lompaiir London and Blackwall Railway Lyndon andßinningham Railway Company 9O 170 . . . Ditto 1 4 Shares 5 30 Ditto Bonds 4 per Cent, 1843. Northern and Eastern Railway Company N rth Midland Railway Company 35 42 York and North Midland Railway Company l2 13 Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 14 Do British 1 1 % 3 4% Do. London Bitumen 1 214 2 Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen British North American Bank General Steam Navigation Company .... l3 22104 Union Bank of Australia HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have rather improved since the morning, and may be quoted 93i both for time and money ; Exchequer Bills, 69 67 ; India Bonds, 74 76; Bank Stock, 205 i ; India Stock, 2691. Spanish Active, 204 i with Coupons; Portuguese, .4 31- ; Three per Cents., 214 221 ; Brazilian, 76i ; Mexican, 27-i i • _ , Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i 54A-. Share Market rather heavy ; Claridge's Patent 12 prem. THREE 0' CL 0 CI, Consols for Account, 93f. THE WEATHER IN EDINBURGII.—The weather, for the last two weeks bas been unusually cold and stormy. The cold has been almost as int ense as i n the depth of winter, and snow, hail , wind, and rain, have prevailed by turns. We appear, however, to hare been more fortunate than our brethren in other parts of the country. W e see b y th e Glas row and Dumfries papers, that a severe hurricane visited these places on Sunday last, and did considerable damage to horses, trees, &c. Nothing serious, however, seems to have Occurred, and the storm abated in the course of Monday.— Scotsman. Easter Monday opened upon us this year with sleet and snow, and an intensity of cold almost unparalleled tor so late a period in the spring. At eight o'clock in the morning the snow fell rapidly, and at about three o'clock in the afternoon there were several loud claps of thunder heard reverbraving over the town. In a north-easterly direction huge masses of black clouds appeared, which were evidently surcharged with electric fluid. During Monday night a con siderable quantity of snow fell ; and on Tuesday morning the streets, houses, and trees, presented the appearance of a dreary January season. —Bury (Suffolkj Herald. FASHIONABLE ARRIVAL.—The Devil arrived at the Astor House late last evening ( his tail in his trunk), and will appear in Wall -street to-day, it, time to begin business and speculate in stocks. He looks pals and sentimental. In the evening he will be at Tammany-hall, to look after his dar lings, the locofocos.—N ew York Illornms 7 .4Yerald. ft appears from the published accounts of the trea surer of the county of Middte, , ,ex, ;hht r eceipts and assets in hand for the last quarter, ending the 6tl: instant, w ere 29,5441., and th e expenditure for the same Imigd 18,9681. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DA. Y•) The LORD CHANCELLOR took lunatic petitions. IN THE MATTER OF DAVENPORT, A LUNATIC. This case came before the Court upon two petitions, o me on behalf of the Committee of the lunatic, praying that Mr.. Per ceval Ward might be ordered to transfer into the name cif the petitioner a 6,0001. East India Stock which had been trans ferred in trust to his father, the late Bishop of Sodor and Alan! by the lunatic, Mr. Davenport, for religious purposes s the other petition was on the behalf of Mr. Perceval INard praying that the expences he incurred in attending the Com mission prosecuted against Mr. Davenport might e ither be paid out of the fund, or by the lunatic's estate. a eared Mr. Wigram, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Chandless pp on behalf o f the fi rs t p e titi oner , an d Air. J ames R ussell w as Counsel on behalf of Mr. Ward. The granting of the prayer of the first petition bei n g a matter of course if the second was un s u c cessful, In Mr. J. RUSSELL proceed e d . t o o p en th e Litt er p e tition. the course that had been adopted by M r . Ward, he had bee h instigated only by a desire t o p ro t ec t th e charity to whit the sum in question had been d evo t e d, an d not from any pecuniary considerations, as he h a d no p ecu niary interes t- In order to put the Court into p ossess i on o f the sitna; tion in which the late Bi s h o p o f S o d or an d Man had • been placed, and the consequence of the course pursued, he would state the circumstances that t oo k pl ace . Mr. Georg e Davenport, the subject of the Commission, was a gentlema n who, in 1834 came, upon the d ea th o f hi s f at h er , under his will, into the possession of a large property-20,6001., O r " per cent Consols, and 41,0001., at his absolute disposal. was a gentleman of religious habits, and had rec ei v ed a Pi ons education ; and, being such, he devoted a portion cif his pr ( ? - perty to the service of God and r e li g i on . H e n iarried i n May, 1837, and in the interval betw een 1835 an d th at Pell a he had applied about 20,0001. to the furtherance of relig' ° . a f .,' and upon his marriage he settled a la rge amoun t u p o n his "I - - and children. About a year previ o us t o hi s marr i age , in conse quence of the building of new churches in the Isle of 3 1 a n ' an intimacy sprung up between Mr. Davenport and the niSh° l3 ,lf Sodor and Man. Mr. Davenport intended to devote him to to the Ministry, and had selected the Isle of Man as th c of his labours. On the 26th of August in that year, he vvr °ia to the Bishop of Sodor and Man, stating his desire to transi fer the sum of 6,000/. i n I n di a D oc k S toc k i nto t h e na me ° the Bishop, for the purpose of being appropriated to the cause of charity and religion in that isle. Having communicated his intention to the Bishop, he took several jomneys to Lincoln, Oxford, Scotland, and Ireland. In the course cf those journies, he had intercourse with the Bishop and the Archdeacon nt Lincoln, and with several persons of eminence at Oxford , and also in Scotland; on the 24th of October in the same.: year, he gain wrote to the Bishop of Sodor and Alan statinf his determination to place the 6,0001. at his disposal. Mr. „ t Davenport returned to London in the November fallowing' and on the 6th of that month the transfer of the Stos:k r i g - a made, of which he apprised the Bishop, stating that he j '. appropriated the money to God and th e u s e o f his ChOr eh g s In the month of January following the Bishop was surpfis to find a distringas placed upon the Stock; and Le o , writing to the parties who had issued that distringas, he " t informed that Mr. Davenport's re l a ti ons were o f o pinion th l ' r he was of unsound mind, and th a t an a ppli cat i on would ' I made for a commission against hi m , an d t h at un d er that en nid. mission the Bishop would be req u i re d t o re - trans f er the sto el In the interim Mr. Davenport again wrote to the BishTi stating that the gift was considered by hi s re l a ti on s to be . proper, and that they wished him to re-transfer the stock, ro asts he objected to do, stating that he would leave the eb in the hands of the Lord, for the benefit of whose Chu; it had been devoted. Upon the 27th of January in th e ',. ( , ) slr lowing year, the Bishop died, and upon the 31st of that In° - „, Mr. Davenport, hearing of the event, wrote a letter of c o e ';,. dolence to his son Mr. Ward, the present petitio.nert t he pressing a desire to know how things were going on 1°- for Isle of Man. Thus matte rs s t oo d w h en t h e app li ca t t h e the commission was made. The commission issued upc' n hick 30th day of January, the Saturday preceding Whig- Mr. Ward had n o ti ce o f th e execut i on of the Comb at sion, and that :gentleman, considering the letters had passed between his father and Mr. Davenl / ,` 9 N is. all of them breathing a rational spirit, considering that L tly Davenport had been treat e d by a ll t h e wor ld as a perf ec se sane man—considering the journie s h e h a d ma de, and th high company that he had kept—th oug h t i t hi s duty as : e0 executor of his father and as the trustee of the 6,000/., e a the commission issued, avowedly f o r th e p urpose o f overr e ing that gift to watch the proceedings upon that h Commissiakrie Mr. Ward most properly, at the suggest i on o f his Lord s upon an application being mad e t o hi m , agree d t hat the r i ss w rit. perty should be placed under th e con t ro l o f t h e C our t of Chan c e t f. Te in case Mr. Davenport shld be foud a l. remiss called on behalf of ou the Comm n ission unatic we re none Of th„ friends who had visited Mr. Davenport—no part of the cor n r tis spondcnce that had taken place between hint and his N i e rar a was produced ; and under such circumstances; Mr., ha . thought he was bound to call the different persons vin o , th e seen Mr. Davenport, all of whom stated that they had nol• least suspicion that he was at a ll a ff ec t e d i n his mind . „ a n Ward thought it not right that proceedings exclud ing a cr apS from the rights of man should he be tried upon part la' Testa and expressions used in moments of irritation. T , • ° ,,,, r s to of the Commission was, that the Jury found Mr. Day , `-' ll ,,r st o f have been a lunatic, without lucid int e rval s , from thE at ., July, The evidence of the medical gentl e m e n who ba d t h e tended the lunatic, rendered it unn ecessar y (11 1 part of Mr. Ward to offer any medical eviden eel Dr. Sutherland dated the insanity from D e c omber only, on the ground of Mr. Davenport having a boa put upon his gate contaiving a text from the Scrip tures, warning sinners to turn from their evil ways; Dr. Farr founded his opinion of Mr. Davenport's lunacy upon a pa racy lar view he took of the Second Commandment, and upon bS . refusing to take the sacrament, because the clergyman described the table, upon which the bread and wine was pis I ce°, as the altar of the Lord. In conclusion the Learned Co r insq trusted that the Court would be of opinion, that Mr. It Ve r . bad acted in an extremely proper manner in watching the Prf, s ceedings of the lunacy, and therefore was entisled to the 051 to which he had been put. de ' The LORI) CHANCELLOR thought that the represent:lo/e! of the Bishop of Sodor and Man had acted with a soun scretioa in situ non of they had adopted, place d as D'j were in a ation of great difficulty. They found j)tha..riteot: certain sum of Stock had been transferred by Mrs.9tr 'lst , ee port into the name of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, t l is for certain charitable and r e li g ious purp o ses. FP. °n t i l e occasion of the Commission, they had applie a ti ppi ` i ° coat i.;i: Court for liberty to attend it, and w i z en that was made they submitted u p on b e i ng allowed to d d to undertake that in case Mr. Da ven p or t-1s being f" C n o j rt lunatic, to re-convey the stock, to be dealt wit,i as th e at should think lit. It must, therefore, be taken that they tended before the C o mmi ss ion f or their o wn pr o tection. 2 ,S Lordship entertained no doubt that the Bishop of ss`lod ar th ieg Man had no personal interest i n the transfer. There wasi° ° vcri to lead to the suspicion that th e Bishop knew that Mr. •, a ble port's mind was in a state as to render him 11 Of to transfer his property. On the whole, his Lordship V' n ot opinion, that the 6,000/. should be transferred into Cowls t he to be paid out without notice to the Attorney-General and 643 Executors of the Bi s h o p o f S o d or an d M an . His Lord s t 'i v e would most willingly h ave re li eve d th e re p resen tatives o f Las se Bishop of Sodor an d M an f rom t h e costs if h e could bibs done so, as it was a hard case upon them. But, ill )° , a whole, his Lord s hip t h oug h t t h e representat i ves o f the 13 . ha c 5 .,0 had got off at m uc h l ess expense t h an th e y might ;',,, 5 0 expected, c on sid er i ng t h e s i tuat i on i n which they had `- placed. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY•) BENT V. REYNOLDS. , This cause, which was before the Court a f e w n 'ee"s t he upon a motion for an injunction to stay proceeding , ' l a ro d Lord Mayor's Co ur t, an d w hi c h i n j unction was then g ra , ou (and the whose f ac t s o f w hi c h we t h en reported), now ca'l2rosta upon demur rer . Th e o bj ect o f the bill wa.s to have the to is of a deed car r i e d i n t o execut i on, and the demurrer Was P for want of equity and for multifariousness. f the Mr. TINNET and Mr. BLU NT appeared in support 0 demurrer. dip atm Mr. PEMBERT O N (with wh o m was Mr. Btxx) appe ar b e ep support of the Bill, an d conten d e d t h at t h e d emurre r 111 ,. 0 , 1 1 , merely put in for the purp ose o f re -t ry i ng th at w hich his - 1-4 ship had decided upon the motion for the injunction. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DA-I'.') PANTY V. CATLIN. Mr. CRESSWELL moved in this case, which was .tried b ei ge . Mr. Justice Pattison at York, for a rule, calling uP cn s iclar plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be se t and a new trial granted. The grounds on which the' efr st ir• tion was wade was, that th e d e f en d ant h a d b een ta ken' u' the prise, his attorney ha v i ng b een g i ven to understand thatd, and case would not come on on th e d a y on w hi c h i t wa s tri c 05 0 accordingly it was dispos e d o f among t h e.un d e f en ded a nd although he had given notice of his intention to defend itr had furnished briefs to Counsel.—Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY') BRIBERY AT BRIDGWATER.—W EB B V. MTH, de' In this case, in which a verdict was given ag ainst th e ile j a fendant in the penalty of 500/. f or b r ibi ng person uVhe Jones to vote for Mr. Br oa d woo d, t h e T ory candidate a' t II hae Bridgwater electi on , M r . S ergeant B ordrAs ap Plied tb % groundthefir returnings t t h a d otfn a yacneo officer was examinedwt earsm not ofto legal g a o pa r yl u l ofe evidence, t t h o e esnht Sheriff's fft a nonsui t , - ° n t h e should have been put ' itselfthe S in to prove the election, ent riff having exceeded his duty in transmitting that docualso with the writ and return to the Crown-office. 11 : f grounded an application for a new trial upon the ado j°° of improper evidence and misdirection of the Judge. •dera - The Court on that occasion reserved, for further eu ns „.,' i n ed tion, the point respecting the admissibility of the exi t ' — t a b that precept t pr t : u h e e l ) .. copy of the precept. m e t of The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE this day gave the judg— n 1 ., the Court that the rule must be refused. It was the regu r l,. course for the Sheriff to transmit the precept and return to the Crown-office, which was the legal grit proper depositary for all documents connected vvith the ears w i t h the and t and its execution. In Witte's Reports, 422, a ul' e aP a P t e , s a a n ._ eMead v. Robinson), where in an action for bribery lection the precept itself was objected to, on the ground : that document ought to be in the Crown-office, and that th proper evidence would be, not the original, but an office co ri examined. Thus it was very hard to please defenda nts.— 1' ugh. ) In face. wherever it ha ,l that the pr ece p t Nvas not returned to the Crown-office, it was thought the neglees of the Under-Sheriff.—Rule refused.